Art Quotes

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

I think some of the musicians are more like punk rock musicians. It's like an art as opposed to being a musician. It's definitely more radical psychedelic bands, more than anything.

Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration. . . .

You can make your life into a grand ever-evolving work of art. The key is your thoughts, the wonderous invisible part of you that is your spiritual soul.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.

Art imitating life and life imitating art, and it's beyond the job - it will always be a marked period in my life.

You gain your point if your industrious art can make unusual words easy.

Family is a collective expression of individual perspective-a living work of art.

By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York.

In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.

Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.

The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

I'm a citizen of the U.S.A but I also travel around the world and love other countries like the UK as if it was my own. I love your tolerance and preservation of the arts.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

Woman, thou art a river, deep and wide, Of waters soft and sweet: Alas! I've never reached the other side; Though oft I've wet my feet!

Where any view of money exists, art cannot be carried on.

The ignorant Insults of Individuals will not hinder me from doing my duty to my Art

Where there is money there is no art.

What has reason to do with the art of painting?

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress ?

When we are high and airy hundreds say That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place, While those same hundreds mock another day Because we have made our art of common things.

Another soldier has been killed. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Life is deceitful because all warfare is based on deception.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

But, oh, Thou bounteous Giver of all good, Thou art, of all Thy gifts, Thyself thy crown!

Made poetry a mere mechanic art.

Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art.

There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should not in every respect, rival a gentleman in the gentle art.

For in a dearth of comforts, we art taught To be contented with the least.

By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.

Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?

To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

Management is the art of getting three men to do three men's work

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.